Chaos V-Ray for 3ds Max
Explore the unexplored
The world’s most complete 3D rendering software for high-end visualization and production
V-Ray® for 3ds Max is a production-proven rendering software. Known for its versatility and ability to handle any type of project — from massive, dynamic scenes having thousands of lights to a sublime still life — it is the go-to solution for artists and designers across 3D industries.
Emmy and Academy Award-winning rendering technology for any project
For truly photorealistic renders, you want a raytracer that’s built for quality, optimized for speed, and ready to scale. V-Ray gives you the power to work with lightning-fast interactive and heavyweight production rendering—all while getting the most from your CPU and GPU hardware.
Built to handle your toughest scenes
When you’re working with the biggest scene you’ve ever seen, you need a renderer that won’t let you down. Billions of polygons? Thousands of lights? V-Ray can handle it all. Render anything and everything with V-Ray. Adaptive Lights, Proxy Objects, Distributed Rendering — an arsenal of production-proven features when you need them.
Post-process your renders without the need of a separate tool
V-Ray equips you with a complete set of lighting, shading, and rendering tools—all integrated with 3ds Max. The redesigned V-Ray Frame buffer with light mixing and layered compositing means you only need to use one tool for more than just rendering — no need to go back and forth between different apps.
Create interactive experiences in real-time — in a 100% raytraced environment
Present your ideas in 100% ray-traced quality without the need of extra optimizations and conversions. Make project changes directly in 3ds Max and validate your designs on the spot.
Work seamlessly with other software
V-Ray is compatible with all the most popular 3ds Max plugins — Substance, Forest Pack, Railclone, Ornatrix, Tyflow, Phoenix, and more. V-Ray is also the perfect fit for any pipeline with support for open standards such as Alembic, OSL, OpenColorIO, and now ACEScg.
WHAT’S NEW
Explore the unexplored with V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max
Go anywhere your imagination takes you
Create faster and render better than ever before. Easily populate your scenes with millions of 3D objects to create natural-looking landscapes and realistic environments. Generate detailed surfaces using repeating geometric patterns at no extra memory cost. Create beautiful custom skies with procedural clouds, collaborate in the Cloud, and much more.
Build worlds
Create anything imaginable with new tools, allowing you to quickly and easily build worlds – without limits.
Chaos Scatter
Populate your scenes with millions of objects in just a few clicks. Our new scatter tool allows you to quickly and easily create forests, fields, crowds, and more, without using lots of memory. Download free 3D models and scatter presets from Chaos Cosmos to get started.
V-Ray Enmesh
Tile 3D geometry patterns across objects to create complex surfaces with lots of detail for stunning close-up shots. Enmesh is ideal for creating intricate panels, fences, fabrics, and so much more, and it uses much less memory than displacement or copying by hand.
V-Ray Decal with Displacement
You can now use V-Ray Decal to add displacement to any surface for even more realistic cracked walls, rocks, embossed lettering, and more.
V-Ray Proxy Object Hierarchy
Easily turn an individual object’s visibility on or off or override their material with the new V-Ray Proxy hierarchical view. Set custom order by name, and streamline your geometry exchange and custom library workflows.
Collaborate as you create
Fast-forward your project’s reviews and approvals
Chaos Cloud Collaboration
Get rapid, consolidated feedback on your work’s progress. Upload your renders to Chaos Cloud Collaboration right from V-Ray’s Frame Buffer, and share your work with clients, team members, and other stakeholders for easy review, markup, and comments at any time.
Streamline your workflow
Get the job done faster and save time to be creative
Procedural clouds
Craft just the right cloudy sky for your environment in just a few clicks with V-Ray Sun and Sky’s new procedural clouds system. Easily simulate a variety of cloud types and weather conditions, from partly cloudy to overcast. Render realistic stills, or dynamic timelapses.
Finite dome light mode
Elevate your HDRI environment renders with the new, more flexible ground projection capabilities of the V-Ray Dome Light. Set the scale of a dome light, and have full control over blend settings with the new finite mode.
Faster UI draw times
Get a smoother experience when working with shading networks. V-Ray’s materials and textures interface now comes with much faster load times.
Light Mix light selection
Easily access scene lights with the option to select them directly from the Light Mix interface.
Texture batch load
Add variety to your scene even faster than before and create shader variations in no time with the new texture batch load option inside VRayMultiSubTex.
Shading – powered up
Speed up shading and create even more physically accurate materials
Enhanced V-Ray Material energy preservation
Render metals and rough reflective surfaces even more accurately using the new energy compensation method.
Thin Film layer
Easily create iridescent materials such as soap bubbles, oil spills, and more with the new Thin Film option available in the V-Ray Material.
V-Ray Material Faster SSS
Render translucent materials even faster with a brand-new V-Ray Material subsurface scattering mode. Plus, low-poly translucent objects render more smoothly.
And more!
VFB Panorama Viewer
Now you can preview your spherical panorama renders while rendering, right from your V-Ray Frame Buffer.
Composition Guides Layer in VFB
Fine-tune your scenes’ compositions without a separate application. With customizable overlays, the new composition guides layer in the VFB allows you to easily experiment and enhance your image compositions.
KEY FEATURES
Rendering
CPU and GPU Rendering
Powerful CPU and GPU rendering built for the demands of high-end production. V-Ray® GPU CUDA renders on CPUs as well as GPUs to take full advantage of all hardware.
Denoising
Automatically remove noise and reduce render times with V-Ray or NVIDIA AI denoiser.
Chaos Cloud
Render scenes directly to the cloud with a push of a button.
Ready-to-render assets
Our integrated asset library, Chaos Cosmos, enables you to search and add render-ready models, materials, and HDRI skies to your scene directly from the V-Ray toolbar. Cosmos assets have automatic level-of-detail, accurate scale, and can be used across 3ds Max, Rhino, and Revit.
Resumable Rendering
You can stop your render at any point and pick up where you left off.
Debug Shading
Easily isolate textures, materials and geometry to help debug large shading networks in V-Ray IPR and V-Ray GPU IPR.
Native ACEScg support
Select industry-standard ACEScg for rendering with automatic color space adjustment for textures, dispersion, sun & sky, and light temperature colors.
Intel® Open Image Denoise
Excellent for interactive rendering, Intel® Open Image Denoise cleans up noise fast and runs on any machine.
Progressive caustics
V-Ray’s new progressively calculated caustics achieve real-world reflections and refractions in less time. Easier to set up, without the need for pre-calculated photon maps.
Lighting & illumination
Procedural clouds
Craft just the right cloudy sky for your environment in just a few clicks with V-Ray Sun and Sky’s new procedural clouds system. Easily simulate a variety of cloud types and weather conditions, from partly cloudy to overcast. Render realistic stills, or dynamic timelapses.
Multiple additive Dome Lights
You can now render multiple dome lights at the same time. Direct support in Light Mix makes it easier than ever to fine-tune the results.
Finite dome light mode
Elevate your HDRI environment renders with the new, more flexible ground projection capabilities of the V-Ray Dome Light. Set the scale of a dome light, and have full control over blend settings with the new finite mode.
Adaptive Lights
Faster, cleaner and more accurate rendering in scenes containing many lights and image-based environment lighting.
V-Ray Instancer lights distribution
More versatile ways of distributing lights in the scene. Instance your lights based on any kind of particle system.
Atmospheric light contribution control
Improved control to speed up your lighting setup. Easily tweak how much an individual light illuminates the environment fog around it.
Lighting Analysis tools
Accurately measure the light levels in your scene using the lighting analysis tools.
Accurate Lights
Simulate any type of natural, artificial, or image-based lighting with a wide range of light types.
Global Illumination
Choose from several global illumination options – exact, approximate or a hybrid of both.
Cameras and optical effects
Lens Effects
Fast and accurate simulation of real-world camera lens effects like bloom and glare with dust and scratches. Fine-tune lens effects interactively while you render.
Point & Shoot Camera
Perfect renders are as easy as taking a snapshot with the Automatic Exposure and White Balance settings.
Photorealistic Cameras
Real-world camera controls let you work like a photographer. Render images with detailed depth of field and cinematic motion blur.
Virtual Reality
Experience your project in virtual reality. Create content for popular VR headsets with 6×1 cubic and spherical stereo camera types.
Materials
Advanced material override
The new material override option preserves a scene’s original opacity, bump, refraction and self-illumination, giving you even more creative control.
Auto-translation of Physical Materials
Autodesk’s Physical Materials are auto-translated to V-Ray materials without additional conversions.
New V-Ray Material translucency
Create true translucent materials with the updated V-Ray Material. Now with built-in volumetric subsurface scattering, it’s easier than ever to render realistic skin, plastic, wax, and more.
Improved V-Ray Material in viewport
Representations of V-Ray materials in 3ds Max viewports are now closer to the final render, giving you a better idea of how your results will look.
Physical Hair Material
Render more realistic-looking hair with accurate highlights. Use melanin color as a base and Glint and Glitter controls for additional highlights.
Metalness
The V-Ray Material adds support for PBR shaders with the Metalness reflection controls.
Physically Based Materials
From multilayered car paint to accurate subsurface scattering and in the aLsurface shader, you can create any material imaginable.
V-Ray Toon Shader
Quickly add cartoon and cel-shading effects to your 3D projects.
Chaos Scans Material Library support
1000+ scanned materials. Import and render directly in V-Ray.
Material presets
Save time creating common materials with presets for aluminum, chrome, glass and more.Presets for most used hair colors have also been added.
Material previews
New rendered material swatches show you exactly what your materials will look like.
Coat layer
Add reflective coatings directly in the updated V-Ray Material, saving you both material creation and rendering time vs. using Blend material.
Sheen layer
Create soft microfiber fabrics like velvet, satin and silk with the new Sheen options in the updated V-Ray Material.
Thin Film layer
Easily create iridescent materials such as soap bubbles, oil spills, and more with the new Thin Film option available in the V-Ray Material.
Textures
Memory-efficient Textures
Work with production-ready, multi-resolution tiled textures from your favorite applications, like MARI, Mudbox and ZBrush.
Triplanar Mapping
Quickly apply seamless textures without UVs.
Rounded Corners
Generate perfectly smooth edges at render-time — with no extra modeling.
Texture randomization
Add variety to your scene with the new VRayUVWRandomizer map and enhanced VRayMultiSubTex controls.
Stochastic texture tiling
Automatically remove texture tiling artifacts with the new Stochastic tiling option on the VRayUVWRandomizer.
V-Ray Dirt
Weathered streaks and dirt in crevices are easy with the enhanced V-Ray Dirt, which now employs both ambient and inner occlusion.
New Sun and Sky model
Reproduce the subtleties of twilight when the sun is below the horizon with the new Sun and Sky model.
Blue-noise sampling
Achieve better noise distribution with fewer samples.
Geometry
Chaos Scatter
Populate your scenes with millions of objects in just a few clicks. Our new scatter tool allows you to quickly and easily create forests, fields, crowds, and more, without using lots of memory. Download free 3D models and scatter presets from Chaos Cosmos to get started.
V-Ray Enmesh
Tile 3D geometry patterns across objects to create complex surfaces with lots of detail for stunning close-up shots. Enmesh is ideal for creating intricate panels, fences, fabrics, and so much more, and it uses much less memory than displacement or copying by hand.
Proxy Geometry
Render massive scenes with proxy objects. V-Ray proxies also support layered alembic files, efficiently replace complex scene geometry, and load only at render time. Plus, you can use hierarchy view to easily control objects within a V-Ray Proxy.
Clipper with Render-Time Booleans
Create complex cutaways and sections using any mesh object.
Hair & Fur
Render realistic hair efficiently and flicker-free. V-Ray includes procedural fur, optimized hair shaders, and supports 3ds Max Hair And Fur, HairFarm and Ornatrix.
Specialty Geometry
Create unique geometry like infinite planes, metaballs and isosurfaces, particles, and object cutaways with render-time booleans.
V-Ray Decal
Project V-Ray Decals onto surfaces at any angle without extra UVW work or disturbing any underlying materials. It’s ideal for quickly adding anything from stickers and labels to cracks, stains, and scratches. Add displacement for even more realistic results.
Atmospheric & volumetric effects
Volume Rendering
Render fog, smoke and atmospheric effects that respond correctly to light. Bring in volume grid caches from Houdini, FumeFX and Phoenix FD.
Aerial Perspective
Simulate natural-looking skies with realistic atmospheric depth.
Render elements
Render Elements
Choose from nearly 40 unique beauty, utility and matte passes to give you more control over your rendered images in compositing.
Cryptomatte
Auto-create ID mattes with support for transparency, depth of field and motion blur.
V-Ray 5, update 1 adds support to separate objects by their sub-materials.
Light Path Expressions
Use the behavior of light, rather than just geometry, to produce flexible masks for very efficient compositing. Built-in presets make getting started easy, while scripting is there for ultimate control.
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